Hardwood Forests of the Cumberland Mountains
The article notes limited hardwood supply west of the Mississippi, with strong forests confined to the Cumberland mountains. It highlights better forest conditions there due to ample rainfall, soil retention, and abundant stands of oaks, hickories, poplar, hemlock, and walnut, the latter needing seed supply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific Coast
Missouri
Arkansas
Union
Cumberland Mountains
United States
Cure for Itching with Cuticura Stated by Patient
A 50 year old man from Concord New Hampshire reports severe inflammation and itching on limbs below the knees lasting two months. After trying several remedies, applying Cuticura stopped the itching immediately and within two days swelling subsided enough to wear shoes again. May 14 1907.
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Cutiura
George B. Farley
South State St
Concord
N. F
Railroads Report Losses Fall Short of Company Claims
Texas railroad commission data show the state's railroads lost 4.77 million dollars in the last nine months, about half the 9.54 million dollars claimed by the railroad companies, signaling a discrepancy between carrier and regulator figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas Railroad Commission
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY WITH LAXATIVE BROMO
A vintage drug ad promising a one day cure for a cold using laxative bromide and quinine. Each box bears W Groves signature and costs 25 cents with a refund if it fails to cure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W.grove
Double Play in London Bun Robbery a Comic Tale
A London urchin buys a hot halfpenny bun and asks the baker to shove it down his back to hide it from older boys. A second boy questions the baker, learns of the first theft, and the perpetrator bolts with the till while the baker chases him, leaving the shopman unaware of the comedy.
Not now says Hickenlooper. Jake Pawson divorced
Wilber notes some men love work, citing Jake Pawson as wedded to labor. Hickenlooper interjects that Pawson is divorced, saying he was bounced last Saturday, per Lippincott's.
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Wilber
Jake Pawson
Hickenlooper
Lippincott’s
Living Advertisement Glow of Health Speaks for Postum
A Tennessee woman shares how stopping coffee and using Postum improved digestion, nervousness, and insomnia. She weighs 117 pounds before, 170 after, credits Postum with her recovery, and notes her husband calls her a living advertisement. The letter, attributed to Postum Co. Battle Creek, invites readers to read The Road to Wellville and “There’s a Reason.”
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Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
One Man’s Life Work Behind Washington Botanical Garden
The National Botanical Garden in Washington houses a global plant collection tied to one man, William R. Smith, superintendent for over fifty years. Born in 1828, he trained at Kew and Dundasie, and shaped a swampy 11-acre site into a nation pride, with rare specimens labeled for research while other plants remain in nearby greenhouses.
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National Botanical Garden
Washington
National Capital
William R. Smith
George Washington
National College
David Burns
Botanical Society
Distret
Columbia
Arsenal Reservation
Haddington
Scotland
Mr. Smith
Kew
United States
Edinburgh
Dundassie’s *Mous Gardens
Philadelphia
Capitol Cit
Library
Capitol
Smithsonian Institution
Ogether
Taylours and Smyths in the Thirteenth Century Trade Map
London Notes and Queries surveys medieval trades noting leather makers, skinners, tanners, and especially taylours and smyths as the commonest occupations. It counts 407 taylours, 261 smyths, 186 wryghts, and other crafts like arkwryghts and glass wryghts, with broad social markers such as wealth and tax levels.
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Feuster
Eissor
Faber
London
New Naval Secretary Truman H Newberry chosen for Navy post
Truman H. Newberry has succeeded Victor H. Metcalf as Secretary of the Navy after Metcalf resigned for health reasons. Newberry, born in Detroit in 1864, has three years in public life, Greek Yale graduate, and has deep ties to Michigan naval affairs including the Michigan Naval Reserves and the Michigan State Naval Brigade. He served as acting ensign at Guantanamo during the Spanish war and held various executive posts in industry before entering government service.
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Truman H. Newberry
Victor H. Metcalf
Navy
Charles H. Darling
Detroit
Navy Department
Michigan Naval Reserves
Michigan State Naval Brigade
United States
Yosemite
ISST
Detroit Steel and Spring Company
Union, University, New York Yacht and
St. Anthony Clubs
New York
Vondorega Club
Gray hairs and the call to renewal through love
Reverend Charles F Aked reflects on aging as a moral summons rather than humor. He warns against complacency, urges renewed energy from faith, and argues that true immortality lies in enduring friendship and love. He urges readers to cultivate lasting bonds and spiritual vigor to resist moral decay.
Immortality of Friendship by Henry F. Cope
A meditation on enduring friendship across death. Love links the living and dead, transcending time through spirit to spirit bonds. Flowers on graves express affection, not despair, as the text extols friendship beyond mortal limits and into eternity.
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Henry F. Cope
John
Short Meter Sermons Insightful Moral Aphorisms
A compact collection of moral maxims on will education piety and virtue. It contrasts truth and error cites conscience appetite and prosperity as forces shaping character and life outcomes. It notes the limits of living well versus living rightly and warns against public vanity.
Do Not Kill Hope or Fail Duty With Fear
A compact moral exhortation warns against moral decay from inaction and fear. It urges sowing happiness, honest actions, and sincere prayer, warning that blaming others, superstition, or self piloting harms the soul and undermines true friendship and integrity.
Peruna credited with curing longstanding catarrh
Miss Sophia Kittlesen of Evanston Illinois reports twenty five years of catarrh and poor health improved after using Peruna She says her throat sore cough vanished and health greatly improved She recommends Peruna to friends Also notes Peruna tablets and Man a lin laxative and offers a 1909 almanac from the druggist
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Sophia Kittlesen
Evanston
Ill
Man-a-lin
Old Lady Surprises Burglary Suspect Under Bed
In a humorous tale from the strand magazine an elderly woman who nightly checks under her bed for burglars discovers an armed man hiding beneath. After a startled greeting she calmly notes she has long sought him, the intruder freezes and slips away as she returns to bed and sleeps.
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Jimmy
Trand
Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days With Pazol Ointment
Guarantee promises cure for itching bleeding or prolapsed piles in 6 to 14 days or money back. Advertising note states Pazol Ointment cures any case of piles with refund if not satisfied.
Twenty Fifth Anniversary At St Pauls Hoboken
Rev Dr William R Jenvey recently marked the twenty fifth anniversary of his agreement at St Pauls Episcopal church Hoboken missing only one service he was scheduled to conduct. The Edmonton Opera house Lenewah program ends with a quip about hats for any old ladies afraid of taking cold from manager Brandon.
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William R. Jenvey
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Hoboken
Edmonton
Lenewah
Brandon
Starfish Piece Breaks Free and Regrows Into Star
A starfish netted by fishermen dies by its own action as it dissolves into fragments escaping the mesh. Amid the escape a strange resurrection occurs with a piece growing into a complete star, signaling an extraordinary regeneration scene.
Wanted, by important firm, a commercial agent
A Vienna newspaper advertises a demanding post for a commercial agent described as a good talker and ambitious, offering a good salary with prospects of increase. A separate note asserts Madrid holds the highest altitude of any European city.
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Vienna
Madrid
Europe
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Smith
William RB. Smith
Taylours and Smyths
NAVAL
Jupiter
T. H. Newberry
Charles F. Aked
D. D
Hosea Vili
Paul
Earth
Heaven
Miss. Sophia
Kittlesen
Peruna
Celestine
Dodds
T. Felix Gouraud
Canada
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